[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-177 Revising Section 4.4 C/I Reserved Pool Size

[David Farmer]

I reached out to someone I know in the ICANN DSSA WG to confirm some of 
my suspicions, since he pays more attention to that part of ICANN more 
than I do.

So, I believe;

1. The number of allocations we will need to make should be driven much 
more by the number of CI operators than the number of gTLDs themselves.

2.  There will likely be a number of new CI operators, probably 
somewhere in the range of 10-100, not anywhere near the number of gTLD 
that could be possible.

3. There will be a lot of additional business for the current CI 
operators too, so some modest growth from current CI providers is 
probably reasonable too.

4. This will likely occur over the next 15 to 40 months.

So, what ARIN policy conclusions do I draw from those;

1. We should probably reserve a bit more and drop the sunset.

2. Maybe we should clarify that we expect efficient operations even from 
CI operators, like individual gTLDs and ccTLDs operated by the same CI 
operator don't justify independent allocations, etc...  We need be 
careful not to hamstring CI operators, but CI operators shouldn't be 
given a blank check either.  What must CI operators provide to justify 
CI allocations today?

So, I support the text as written.  And maybe we should consider if our 
CI policy needs any additional work.

Thanks.

On 6/27/12 12:22 CDT, ARIN wrote:

> ARIN-prop-177 Revising Section 4.4 C/I Reserved Pool Size
>
> Proposal Originator: Martin Hannigan
>
> Proposal Version: 1.0
>
> Date: 27 JUNE 2012
>
> Proposal type: NEW
>
> Policy term: PERMANENT
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Change Section 4.4 Paragraph 2 from:
>
> ARIN will place an equivalent of a /16 of IPv4 address space in a
> reserve for Critical Infrastructure, as defined in section 4.4. If at
> the end of the policy term there is unused address space remaining in
> this pool, ARIN staff is authorized to utilize this space in a manner
> consistent with community expectations.
>
> Change Section 4.4 Paragraph 2 to:
>
> ARIN will place an equivalent of a /15 of IPv4 address space in a
> reserve for Critical Infrastructure, as defined in section 4.4.
>
> Rationale:
>
> Additional critical infrastructure is being added to the Internet and
> in a number greater than anticipated. The original CI pool was created
> to serve new IX and new CI requirements. The pending need is estimated
> in the 600 new gTLD range. With a /24 assignment from the existing
> boundary and the likelihood of some sharing platforms, assigning a /15
> would seem prudent. I also have removed the limited term. If at a
> later date we opt to remove or reduce the pool, it's simpler to do so
> without an extra step, namely the term. The process for completing the
> additions still has some time to play out, but it is likely we will
> have exhausted by the time that the process does fully play out.

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